Surah 8
Al-Anfal
The Spoils of War
The surah of Badr
Three hundred men went out after a caravan and met an army three times their number. By midday the leaders of Quraysh lay dead in the sand. The surah came down afterwards, while the victors were quarrelling over the spoils — and it tells them, point by point, who actually won the battle.
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